Much
of the grey literature contained information about Indigenous viewpoints on «what works» to prevent violence against women.
I'm not sure it has specifically been covered in the postings and comments that I have read, but the control
of grey literature in academic institutions is included in the concept of institutional repositories.
H. Hall, «You'll wish it was all over: the bibliographic control
of grey literature with reference to print football fanzines»» 10 Serials 189.
The digital archive collection of the Harvard Law School Library includes selected Harvard Law School publications, government documents (both U.S. and foreign), and secondary legal and law - related sources, such as reports and studies from organizations, scholarly societies, and other types
of grey literature.
Walt Crawford, an engaging and controversial voice in the library world, has just released an article characterizing blogs and other forms
of grey literature as «the most compelling and worthwhile literature in the library field today.»
But in this age of the electronic resource, for those of us who work in the NRC Information Centres directly with researchers, often its just as easy and as much fun for us to find that piece
of grey literature ourselves than to send the order in to our Document Delivery group.
The face
of grey literature and in particular the efforts required to collect them have changed significantly since the internet has made electronic publishing the norm for a large number of information producers.
What's wrong with the IPCC goes far deeper than the question of the proportion
of grey literature or quotas for non-white contributors.
If it can't cope with the problem
of grey literature, and will be including more of it, as Pearce suggests may be the case, maybe it should just admit to being political, not a scientific organisation.
WHY THESE FINDINGS MATTER Governments around the world need to base their policies on impeccable research - not a report that relies on 5,587 instances
of grey literature to make its case.
Start with the continued use
of grey literature and move on from there.
a) Who (e.g., what organization) is the source
of the grey literature citation?
It should include a look at institutional responses to IAC, selection of authors and lead authors and a count
of grey literature cited in AR5.
The Panel adopted a number of decisions in this regard, including on the treatment
of grey literature and uncertainty, and on a process to address errors in previous reports.
Michael Fulford, one of Bradley's colleagues at the University of Reading, has been piloting a study
of the grey literature about Roman Britain, with similarly exciting results.
Not exact matches
«I became aware that what I was teaching would be out
of date without looking at the
grey literature,» says Bradley.
Bradley is one
of a growing number
of academics in the United Kingdom who are doing their digging in the masses
of unpublished «
grey literature» generated when commercial archaeologists are brought in to excavate before any sort
of construction.
However, the «
grey literature» has no place in a work that purports to be a serious text book on the subject
of climate change.
I did a little bit
of that, but one
of the problems that I faced was that when you do that you're basically looking at particularly types
of literature — largely journal articles — and a lot
of teacher supply and demand data come from what we call «
grey literature», which is
literature that isn't published by recognised publishing houses.
The store is the physical incarnation
of a monolithic business
of immense wealth that is changing the face
of literature itself, but from within it is all very boring, very safe, in an upscale
grey palette kind
of way.
What I said was «As authors, we had to report only the best available science (inclusive
of a select few
grey literatures as per the rules
of procedure) which is «policy - relevant and yet policy - neutral» and that's what we collectively did while writing the Asia Chapter.
The 2007 report used a non-peer-reviewed study produced by an NGO — known as «
grey literature» — to erroneously project that 80 percent
of the Himalayan glacier area would very likely have melted by 2035.
Please provide a link to a reputable source that documents the usage
of such
literature in WG1, or, failing that, provide a link to that portion
of WG1 in question and to the
grey literature on which it was based.
That's why a lot
of people are now trying to sell the idea that the IAC review has called for an outright ban on
grey literature.
The BT approach uses values estimated from existing studies that are published in academic or
grey literature as an approximation for valuing environmental services and social welfare
of carbon offset projects.
I guess we could say that there are varying shades
of grey in the
grey literature.
According to Pielke: «I have noticed recently a number
of peer - reviewed papers that reference so - called «
grey literature» (e.g., agency, company, NGO reports) which hasn't itself been peer reviewed.
Put another way, three - quarters
of the material cited there is
grey literature.
Despite vigorous protests from its own expert reviewers, 42 %
of the documents cited in one chapter
of the climate bible are
grey literature rather than peer - reviewed.
As we've seen over the last couple
of years, many
of the more outlandish and alarmist claims in the IPCC reports have been based not on peer - reviewed science, but on «
grey literature» — the propaganda sheets and press releases distributed by fanatical green NGOs (many
of which are part - funded by the European Commission — but that's another story).
Not to mention all the other issues unearthed, like the evident pattern
of errors and bias, or the control
of the «independent» Wegman panel by Peter Spencer, who apparently chose the research and «
grey literature» examined by Wegman et al..
Grey area indicates the 98th and 90th percentiles (light / dark
grey)
of the
literature (AR4 database (Hanaoka et al. 2006) and more recent
literature (Clarke et al. 2010; Edenhofer et al. 2010)-RRB-.
Grey area indicates the 98th and 90th percentiles (light / dark
grey)
of the
literature (for references, see Figure 4).
Grey area indicates the 98th and 90th percentiles (light / dark
grey)
of the
literature.
There is a big difference between a private company employing a leading expert, and the IPCC employing a political activist who reviewed and published his own work
grey literature (non peer reviewed) which amounted to little more than an advert for his own industry and by doing so helped push the IPCC's political agenda and fill his own bank balance, but also failed to provide any independent scientific evidence
of a way forward.
McShane and Wyner's background exposition
of the scientific history
of the «hockey stick» relies excessively on «
grey»
literature...»
Neither is BEST a review
of the hockey stick data, just the earth surface temps according to weather station sighting, rather than proxies, and yet the BBC have claimed that this non-peer review
grey literature (as it is at this time) is conclusive proof
of ALL AGW alarmist claims.
McShane and Wyner's background exposition
of the scientific history
of the «hockey stick» relies excessively on «
grey»
literature and is replete with errors, some
of which appear to be have been introduced through a misreading
of secondary sources, without direct consultation
of the cited sources.
Some
of the «
grey literature» discussed, such as Soon and Baliuans and Wegman, falls squarely into the contrarian canon.
«A citizens audit
of the IPCC study found that 5,587 cited references, nearly a third
of all sources, were not peer - reviewed publications, but rather «
grey literature,» such as press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, discussion papers, masters and PhD theses, working papers and advocacy
literature published by environmental groups,» Sensenbrenner said.
Enhanced guidance on the use
of «
grey literature» — material not published in peer - reviewed scientific journals — has also been drawn up, and will be finalised by chairs
of the IPCC's working groups in the coming months.
The accuracy
of much
of the PR firms to date has been very accurate to date as we have seen by the recent IPCC
grey literature meltdown and the corruption revealed in climategate.
At the same time the IPCC should renounce, or at least severely restrict the use
of,
grey literature.
That analysis demonstrated unequivocally that much
of their «scientific history» was derived from the third - party
grey literature descriptions in Wegman et al and M&M, while many
of the actual citations given by M&W were clearly not actually read by the authors.
To make things worse, NO book or report published by a genuine publishing agency is actually considered «
grey»
literature, regardless
of whether there is any peer review or not -LRB-!).
I have nothing much against the use
of «
grey literature» (or — I might as well come clean all at once — the precautionary principle, a revenue - neutral carbon tax and opposition to consumerism and overpopulation) but it's got to be solid «
grey literature» — Agoumi wasn't — and you've got it to paraphrase it accurately — the IPCC didn't and still hasn't.
This was in the wake
of «Glaciergate»,
of course — the discovery that «
grey literature» had been included in IPCC reports, which are supposed to be produced by «science».
So, essentially, he provides circular argument
of anthropogenic garbage by referencing IPCC 2007 report, yet IPCC has stated they do not do science but put together different scenarios using
grey literature, propaganda, news clipping, and the supposed science K.T. does.
[Pachauri] said the media and other sections
of society had misunderstood the role
of such information, labelling it
grey literature, «as if it was some form
of grey muddied water flowing down the drains».
Everyone had to write lots
of what academics call «
grey literature» discussing all theory and v & v tests.